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We're at the NECC getting ready to do some demonstrations on how ex-tex
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on how X-Texex works from EcoSolutions, that's getting rid of textured coatings
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That's getting rid of textured coatings. But of course before we do that, we've got to have some textures coatings to remove
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So I'm Artex at a few boards getting ready and I thought it's a great idea just to do a short video
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about RTEX in itself. RTEX can be mixed, can be bought in tub
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ready made or it can be mixed in bags and it can be mixed as thin and as thick as
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you like I prefer to mix it thick and I prefer to put it on with the trowel for
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really uneven wonky crack ceilings tape them up first and then trawl it on just
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like plaster and get a thicker coating and I believe if you're trying to cover
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up a really rough surface a thicker coating is better to do that you can mix it
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thin you can roll it on and stipple it gently however what we're gonna do we're
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We're going to lay our artex on fairly thickly with a float, just as you would skin plaster
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Okay, the difference with skin plaster is if we're stifling this, it doesn't necessarily have to be particularly smooth
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It just needs to be of a regular thickness, a fairly uniform thickness, over the surface of the board
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your ceiling or your wall or whatever it is you're trying to cover up so get a fairly
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uniform thickness don't spend a lot of time on that once we've got it on the
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wall we don spend a fortune on really expensive stippling bags we get a 50p decorator sponge and we put it in a normal Sainsbury carrier bag or Tesco Any carrier bag will do grip it tightly and there we have
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And there we have a stippled artex finish. We can even do a few swells with this, grip it tightly at the back, twist and pull
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R-Tex back. We can play about with it forever. The tendency is these days is not to use
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R-Tex. People are moving away from R-Tex, but it's still, there's no question about it, it still
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does cover up a lot of imperfections. To go around the edges, we get a normal pan brush
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and we just run a brush finish around the edge
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So there we have an RTEX ceiling
